Chapter 540: You Don't Stop There
The topic came to an end for the time being, and Gong Li announced that the eunuchs and palace maids outside would bring all the dishes prepared in the imperial dining room, and fine wine was indispensable. After a flurry of people shuttling back and forth, every table is filled with fragrant and steaming good dishes and soups. Just by looking at it, it makes people feel that their index fingers are moving and their appetite is high. After all, it is a royal banquet, with the highest grade and the best wine and food. This point, even Xuanyuan Yichen, who is the prince, has to admit it.
Under the leadership of the emperor, everyone held up their dishes and drank wine, and the musicians on both sides also played cheerful music, and the dancers danced and danced the most pleasing dance music. All of a sudden, the atmosphere in the banquet hall became more lively and harmonious than ever. It's just that what everyone is thinking in their hearts is really only known to themselves. But just because everyone thinks too much, the atmosphere of such a banquet has become a little weird.
After drinking a few more glasses of wine, the sobriety that everyone had maintained was gradually defeated by the wine in their mouths and the beauty in front of them, lost their defenses, and became more enthusiastic one by one.
Maybe it's because the wine is so fragrant that when you put it in a flask, you can't help but pour it out into the glass. When the glass is placed in front of me, I can't help but hold it up. As soon as you smell the aroma of the wine, you can't help but take a sip. And after drinking this sip, it will be terrible, because such a fine wine is rare to see, and it is even more rare to be able to drink it. After taking one sip, you will immediately take a second sip, and then you will drink more and more. The sake was right in front of you, and the rest of the people were drinking and enjoying it. Even Xuanyuan Yichen felt that it was too painful to just look at it like this, and couldn't help but take a sip of his wine glass. Of course, before that, I had helped him confirm that there was no poison in this wine. Even if it is poisonous, they have already eaten an antidote in advance. Not to mention that it cures all diseases and does not invade all kinds of poisons, but all kinds of general toxicity, one antidote pill, all of them. What others give, Xuanyuan Yichen and you Qingyan may not dare to believe that it has such great power, but the things given by the divine doctor Dongfang Ze can be 100% believed and assured.
Sitting on the throne of the emperor, the two concubines around him from time to time picked up wine glasses, picked up dishes, and brought them to the emperor's mouth. It's just that while enjoying the diligent service of the two concubines, he still has to take a look at Xuanyuan Yichen below from time to time. Seeing that Xuanyuan Yichen was also drinking, he also showed a satisfied look.
Xuanyuan Yichen was drinking wine and eating vegetables, but he couldn't say what he was suffering about. looked at the woman who looked somewhat similar to Liu Qingyan half-leaning on the emperor's arms, and sent a wine glass in her hand to the emperor's mouth, and after the emperor took a sip, she took back the wine glass and sent it to her mouth, and took a sip herself. Just such a glass of wine, but let her and the emperor drink several sips back and forth. Xuanyuan Yichen blinked, as if he saw Liu Qingyan in the emperor's arms, and tasted the wine alternately with the emperor.
Xuanyuan Yichen clenched his wine glass, and even began to think, should he kill the emperor with a sword, and come out of sight? Or kill Liu Qingyan after killing the emperor, and finally commit suicide again, and come to a hundred?
Thinking of this, Xuanyuan Yichen picked up the wine glass and wanted to drink it all in one gulp. Liu Qingyan suddenly reached over, gently pressed his hand holding the wine glass, looked at him worriedly and said, "Don't drink it." Instead of looking at the woman next to the emperor, why don't you look at me right next to you? When she said this, she was not jealous, but she saw Xuanyuan Yichen's line of sight clearly, and she also felt that something was wrong with him, and she understood it somewhat in her heart, so she persuaded her.
Liu Qingyan is very sure that since Xuanyuan Yichen said that he only likes himself, and has already made up his mind to be with him and love each other for a lifetime, Xuanyuan Yichen has not looked at other women a few times, and he has only been himself in his eyes and heart from beginning to end. It wasn't until they had a baby that Xuanyuan Yichen's eyes and heart added an extra baby. And now, the reason why he keeps staring at that concubine, to put it mildly, is only because this concubine has some similarities with himself.
Just because of a face that looked barely similar, Xuanyuan Yichen had this inexplicable sense of substitution. Liu Qingyan really didn't know whether to say that Xuanyuan Yichen was too in love with him, or if his vinegar was so strong that even a woman he just met today was so intolerable.
Liu Qingyan took the cup of wine in Xuanyuan Yichen's hand and gave him a cup of hot tea instead. In his hand was a warm touch different from the cold wine, as if he was going to make Xuanyuan Yichen finally come back to his senses. He smiled wryly, and felt that he had gone too far. Just watch and guard the person next to you, other men or women, what does it matter to him?
The emperor saw that the husband and wife had gone, and he didn't look at himself again. He was like a child crying for candy, and the effect was not bad, but after crying too much, no one saw him cry, and no one gave him candy to eat. He couldn't cry anymore, and suddenly he became purposeless and meaningless. But the emperor is not a child after all, and he immediately came up with new ideas in his heart.
When the wine was half-drunk, and when the wine was hot, the emperor stretched out his hand to block the food with chopsticks sent by the concubine next to him, and coughed lightly twice. The sound is not loud, but it is shocking enough, and the effect is obvious enough to satisfy the emperor.
With so many people present, it seemed as if everyone was eating their own food, drinking their own wine, chatting about their own days, and enjoying their own music and songs, but in fact, everyone was secretly observing the two main protagonists, the emperor and the idle king. Therefore, the emperor coughed seemingly casually and slightly, but everyone immediately stopped what they were busy with and raised their heads to look at the emperor who was high above. Even a few ministers who had already drunk a lot of alcohol, these two coughs were like the most powerful and effective hangover medicine, and they suddenly made them sober and honest and obedient.
Such a performance, how can the emperor be dissatisfied. In particular, even Xuanyuan Yichen and Liu Qingyan reacted the same way.
"King Xian, you have been out for the past two years, tell me what kind of life you have lived at the border, and what are the interesting things." The emperor seemed to say with interest. Of course, Xuanyuan Yichen and Liu Qingyan knew that this would not be the case, but they were not sure what the emperor meant when he had something to say.
"Thank you for your concern. The life on the border is, of course, not as good as the life in the capital guarded by the emperor. After the younger brother arrived at the border, he led his troops to fight with the country of Li, and won by luck, and he also thanked the emperor for giving the younger brother this opportunity, so that the younger brother could make a contribution to his country. After the war was over, the younger brother saw that the people on the border were not eating well, the housing was not good, and the living conditions were not very good, so the younger brother took the people in the palace to help the people on the border repair their houses, grow grain, raise livestock, and plant some herbs. In the end, the results are good, and everyone's lives have improved a lot. Xuanyuan Yichen said unhurriedly, as if thanking the emperor for his merits, but also secretly praised his own merits.
In the past two years at the border, Xuanyuan Yichen has led the people in the Xianwang Mansion, the soldiers in the barracks and the people on the border to do more than that. But that's pretty much enough. Of course, the emperor can't know nothing, on the contrary, what he knows must be very clear. As for the other ministers who are doing it, even if they know about it, they will know it somewhat. And Xuanyuan Yichen said this, which was enough for them to understand.
"The Idle King is humble, as far as I know, the Idle King is doing much more than that on the border. And the most important point, the idle king didn't mention it at all, why, the idle king felt weak, so he didn't dare to bring it up in public? The emperor smiled coldly and said gloomily. Looking at Xuanyuan Yichen's eyes, even if they were from such a distance, in the eyes of the other civil and military ministers, even if they were not coming for themselves, they couldn't help but shudder. Several of the ladies who are doing it, and even more so, have exclaimed. I have never seen such an emperor, which really frightened them a lot.
Only Xuanyuan Yichen, he was so close to the emperor, and the emperor's eyes were shot at him at all. But he seemed to be a nobody, and still said lightly and unhurriedly: "What does the emperor mean by this, the courtiers don't quite understand?" "At first, he may have some things he didn't understand, but now he actually has a bottom in his heart. But in this case, wouldn't it be better evidence to let the emperor say it himself?
"If the idle king doesn't understand, then I can make it clear." The emperor obviously didn't have the patience to talk to Xuanyuan Yichen anymore, so he simply said, "'The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister', as close as the capital under your feet, the far border, every inch is not my land." Every man in the land, who is not one of my people. However, looking at the meaning of the younger brother in the border in the past two years, it seems that he wants to take me - and - replace - it! ”
picked up the four words, and the emperor said them fiercely and abnormally, and his eyes were about to split, which made people look at it, and he didn't even dare to make a frightened sound. The ministers are also feeling more and more uneasy, and they all want to get out of here as soon as possible. If such four words are spoken, no matter who is buckled on the head, it will be the end of the nine clans. The people from the Xianwang Mansion who bore the brunt naturally don't need to say much, but these people who are here are afraid that none of them will be able to escape, isn't the fate of this cannon fodder really doomed?
Xuanyuan Yichen didn't take this seriously at all as if the emperor was talking nonsense about an abusive and terrifying joke, and still asked blindly with a face: "Brother still doesn't understand what the emperor means, can the emperor say it a little more clearly?" ”
Everyone knows that Xuanyuan Yichen is really pretending to be confused, among so many ministers, ladies and misses, there are really people who don't understand what the emperor wants to say, and I hope that whether it is the emperor or the prince, at least one person can stand up and explain, so that everyone can die clearly even if they die!